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that's what they are telling the united states. >> tell me, do you think he's right? you know the area better than most. do you think he's correct that if he was to suddenly leave it could provoke more chaos? >> reporter: two issues here. there is the struggle between whether he should leave now and try to prevent more chaos and instability or, as you say, if he stays and leaves precipitously could that open ale whole new vacuum and people have a lot of different ideas about that. what we have found is that there are people obviously who are concerned about the muslim brotherhood. we have even seen and talked to people in the square today. some young people say, we don't want our uprising, they call it the revolution, hi jacked. others say, no, the muslim brotherhood is part of egyptian society and only represents 20, 30% of society and they are not going to win without the acceptance of the people. also the muslim brotherhood knows about the fears that the west and the rest have. they issued a statement. i spoke to one of the leaders today who said that we're not goi
that's what they are telling the united states. >> tell me, do you think he's right? you know the area better than most. do you think he's correct that if he was to suddenly leave it could provoke more chaos? >> reporter: two issues here. there is the struggle between whether he should leave now and try to prevent more chaos and instability or, as you say, if he stays and leaves precipitously could that open ale whole new vacuum and people have a lot of different ideas about that....
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one of the first messages tunisia received was from the united states. it is true when you retire you want to retire from politics itself? do you think you will find peace and prosperity in your country in the next coming years? >> announcer: it is the task of the national commission working on political reform that must be undertaken, and that will allow us to find out in a few days the schedule so the elections can be held in a way to uphold our objective, and generated by a peaceful revolution, a revolution that reinforced our duty to succeed. i said my political career will end once the baton is passed to the next person. we have to leave room for those that want to serve the country and give us a chance to be a country that is dignified. i have confidence in our youth and all political parties that today are eager to have freedom. we have confidence that these men will succeed. >> thank you very much for your time. i have been there and it's a great country, and i hope to come again and wish you every success with your free elections. >> announcer:
one of the first messages tunisia received was from the united states. it is true when you retire you want to retire from politics itself? do you think you will find peace and prosperity in your country in the next coming years? >> announcer: it is the task of the national commission working on political reform that must be undertaken, and that will allow us to find out in a few days the schedule so the elections can be held in a way to uphold our objective, and generated by a peaceful...
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what would you do specifically to make the united states number one? >> again, what i would say to improve our education, we have to empower the teachers to do what they need to do to be more effective. they're the ones on the first line of defense. they're the ones who have the most influence over our students. but we also have to empower the parents. so i support charter schools and i support student vouchers or school vouchers so that it gives parents regardless of income, regardless of status, an opportunity for their students to have a shot at a great education until our public schools do improve. on your next business trip, pack your marriott rewards visa card. get triple points every time you use your card at marriott. apply now and earn 22,500 bonus points when you use your card and enjoy a free night stay. so, before you know it, work time becomes well-deserved downtime. apply now at marriott.com/freenightstay. you've got staying power. >>> let's switch gears and talk about health care, which is such an important issue to millions and millions
what would you do specifically to make the united states number one? >> again, what i would say to improve our education, we have to empower the teachers to do what they need to do to be more effective. they're the ones on the first line of defense. they're the ones who have the most influence over our students. but we also have to empower the parents. so i support charter schools and i support student vouchers or school vouchers so that it gives parents regardless of income, regardless...
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one of the first messages tunisia received was from the united states. entered negotiations and a commission has been formed to revise the laws to make this election free and transparent, an election that will allow all parties to participate with the same chances. it is the task of the national commission working on political reform that must be undertaken. that will allow us to find out in a few days the schedule so that the elections can be held in a way to uphold our objective that the elections be at the level of the hope generated by this revolution, a revolution that's reinforced our duty to succeed. i said my political career will end when the baton is passed to the next government. we have lots of young people, great talents. we have to leave room for those who want to serve this country and who want to give tunisia a chance to become a democracy, to make it a free country where energy is freed from every constraint, a country that is dignified for its history. i have confidence in our people and youth, i have confidence in all political parties
one of the first messages tunisia received was from the united states. entered negotiations and a commission has been formed to revise the laws to make this election free and transparent, an election that will allow all parties to participate with the same chances. it is the task of the national commission working on political reform that must be undertaken. that will allow us to find out in a few days the schedule so that the elections can be held in a way to uphold our objective that the...
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i've lived most of your life in the united states. do you have other citizenship beyond haitian citizenship? >> no, once i came to these yufrd of america, i got a green card and i got what i called american dream and basically fwl brought that dream back to my country. i've always kept my haitian passport and a lot of people said why didn't you change your passport. i always felt like this is the place where i came from and this h was my identity and every time i looked at that passport, i always remembered the people of my country. >> so you never became a naturalized u.s. citizen? >> no, i'm a green card holder with a lot of the rest of my friends. i'm an example of what you would call the american dream taking back to haiti. >> wyclef, we have plahave many questions. you want to be president of haiti, you have to answer serious questions. i want to you stand by. we'll continue our conversation with wyclef jean. he's running for the presidency of haiti. we'll continue the conversation here on "larry king live" right after this. ever
i've lived most of your life in the united states. do you have other citizenship beyond haitian citizenship? >> no, once i came to these yufrd of america, i got a green card and i got what i called american dream and basically fwl brought that dream back to my country. i've always kept my haitian passport and a lot of people said why didn't you change your passport. i always felt like this is the place where i came from and this h was my identity and every time i looked at that passport,...
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thank you, everybody. >> the president of the united states. >> god bless the united states of america. thank you. >> i'm wolf blitzer. join us week days in "the situation room" from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. eastern and every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. and the space to accommodate precious cargo, because every great action hero needs a vehicle. see your lexus dealer. ♪ don: now get free delivery of walmart's $10 90-day generic prescriptions... don: ...no matter where you live.
thank you, everybody. >> the president of the united states. >> god bless the united states of america. thank you. >> i'm wolf blitzer. join us week days in "the situation room" from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. eastern and every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. and at this time every weekend on cnn international. the news continues next on cnn. and the space to accommodate precious cargo, because every great action hero needs a vehicle. see your lexus dealer. ♪...
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policy in afghanistan are those of the afghans now living in the united states. our casey wian spoke with two african-american leaders in orange county, california who are closely watching tonight's presidential speech. >> reporter: hassan nouri is one of an estimated 300,000 afghan-americans in the united states. the son of an afghan diplomat, now an engineer and american citizen, the war in his homeland is personal. >> every time a young american man gets killed, it's an enormous pain for me. every time there is some innocent men, women and children get killed, that's a lot of pain for me. >> reporter: we spoke with nouri at an african-american television network studio in irvine, california. he supports president obama's decision to send more troops to afghanistan. >> we have messed things so bad during the last eight years, that we need an immediate and interim increase in the number of troops to provide enough security so the afghans could establish, elect a national government that has no allegiance to any foreign nation or power. >> reporter: most importan
policy in afghanistan are those of the afghans now living in the united states. our casey wian spoke with two african-american leaders in orange county, california who are closely watching tonight's presidential speech. >> reporter: hassan nouri is one of an estimated 300,000 afghan-americans in the united states. the son of an afghan diplomat, now an engineer and american citizen, the war in his homeland is personal. >> every time a young american man gets killed, it's an enormous...
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he sees that the president of the united states can deliver if he wants to, and -- and look, at this stage, we've now heard from harry reid saying they're no closer to a deal. we've hear from mitch mcconnell saying we are closer to a deal. who haven't we heard from? we haven't heard from the white house, the president or vice president or any of their top aides. at least on this day except for the president's radio and internet address which he taped earlier, that was basically a reiteration of what he said the day before. we'll hear tomorrow some of the president's aides are going out on some of the sunday morning shows, i know gene spurling is going to be on "state of the union" tomorrow morning with gloria borger. we'll hear what they have to say. so far it's weird in the sense that the white house is being at this critical moment in these negotiations thunderously silent, and we don't really understand, you know, what's going on. my own sense is they're moving in the right direction, though. because they simply can't afford default. >> yeah. and mitch mcconnell certainly calling
he sees that the president of the united states can deliver if he wants to, and -- and look, at this stage, we've now heard from harry reid saying they're no closer to a deal. we've hear from mitch mcconnell saying we are closer to a deal. who haven't we heard from? we haven't heard from the white house, the president or vice president or any of their top aides. at least on this day except for the president's radio and internet address which he taped earlier, that was basically a reiteration of...
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states senator, it's a congress person. we've got to take responsibility. the president should have got in there swinging, differentiating what a progressive policy position is as opposed to an extreme right wing one. put romney on the defensive. how dire you give tax breaks to the richest people in this country while we have the most unfair distribution of wealth and income. how dare you throw children off of medicaid when we've got 50 million people without any health insurance today. put him on the defensive instead of saying oh, i agree with you on this. i agree with you on that. you've got to take responsibility and the responsibility is with the president. >> we'll see if he follows your advice in the next debate and the one after that. >>> they're expressions may tell more than their words. we're taking a look at some special face reading software and what it reveals about the presidential debate. ♪ at quicken loans, our amazingly useful mortgage calculator app allows you to quickly calculate your mortgage payment
states senator, it's a congress person. we've got to take responsibility. the president should have got in there swinging, differentiating what a progressive policy position is as opposed to an extreme right wing one. put romney on the defensive. how dire you give tax breaks to the richest people in this country while we have the most unfair distribution of wealth and income. how dare you throw children off of medicaid when we've got 50 million people without any health insurance today. put him...
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it's time for the united states, for international communities, to force and pressure israel to lift this siege, and that, i believe, will lead to putting an end to this. >> i want to bring in anderson cooper who is in gaza and experiencing this. you saw what happened to him moments ago on the air. then we all three will talk. anderson, you there? >> yeah, don. >> okay. so let's play the video. i don't know if you can see it. we did see the video, and it did at least the explosion, i'm not sure the reflection wasover your left shoulder. this is anderson on the balcony. >> whoa! >> you see the reflection first, then you hear the explosion, anderson. since then, i understand you have witnessed more. >> yeah, first of all, don, our sources on the ground say what was hit was a police station on the other side of the building we're on now, so if you did see some sort of a reflection, or an explosion, it was a reflection, not something behind me. and about five minutes later, there was another large explosion, another incoming, and as i pointed out, several hours ago, there was a large roc
it's time for the united states, for international communities, to force and pressure israel to lift this siege, and that, i believe, will lead to putting an end to this. >> i want to bring in anderson cooper who is in gaza and experiencing this. you saw what happened to him moments ago on the air. then we all three will talk. anderson, you there? >> yeah, don. >> okay. so let's play the video. i don't know if you can see it. we did see the video, and it did at least the...
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states tell me reports are not true. what, if anything, do you know about the reports that a meldown may have occurred, may be occurring, at one of these plants? >> i'm not -- i don't think my intelligence -- i'm privy to that intelligence. however, when we were leaving the evacuation center the officials were putting on bright yellow haz-mat-type suits with facing masks to i assume protect themselves against any radiation. >> as we heard earlier the evacuation area around the fukushima nuclear plant has been extended. officials are concerned with any possible ex-please sure ploe-u. >> this time around, what i want to do is focus in on the forecast as well. start off with the incredible am of aftershocks that we have had since the 8.9 great earthquake here. we are now getting close to 300. i think in the next few hours -- we're averaging about five to six earthquakes here, which are essentially, that's what they are, though we call them aftershocks. look at this cluster. break this down for you as far as the magnitude. m
states tell me reports are not true. what, if anything, do you know about the reports that a meldown may have occurred, may be occurring, at one of these plants? >> i'm not -- i don't think my intelligence -- i'm privy to that intelligence. however, when we were leaving the evacuation center the officials were putting on bright yellow haz-mat-type suits with facing masks to i assume protect themselves against any radiation. >> as we heard earlier the evacuation area around the...
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we're in iowa with the president of the united states. happening now, president obama talking one on one with me about jobs, the desperate need to create them for millions of americans and his effort to hold on to his own job. also, the president responds to controversial remarks by would-be republican rivals rick perry and mitt romney, including one comment that some see as disrespectful to the president. and we talk about terrorism as the world prepares to mark ten years since 9/11. the president says that kind of spectacular attack may not be the biggest threat right now. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. breaking news, political headlines, and jeanne moos, all straight ahead. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." president obama on a bus tour through the united states midwest. he's been reaching out to rural voters. but he took some time today to sit down with me for a wide-ranging one-on-one interview. we talked about the political gridlock in washington, the field of republican cha
we're in iowa with the president of the united states. happening now, president obama talking one on one with me about jobs, the desperate need to create them for millions of americans and his effort to hold on to his own job. also, the president responds to controversial remarks by would-be republican rivals rick perry and mitt romney, including one comment that some see as disrespectful to the president. and we talk about terrorism as the world prepares to mark ten years since 9/11. the...
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we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is a special edition of "the situation room." happening now, conflicting reports about a dangerous emergency at one of japan's earthquake-damaged nuclear power plants. an official with japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency tells cnn a meltdown may, repeat, may be under way. but japan's ambassador to the united states tells me that's not true. he says there is no meltdown. on top of that, we're seeing reports of a second reactor at the same facility, report that is it failed just hours ago. but the story and the scope of the disaster is much bigger. the official death toll from friday's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami is now at 686, but the toll will be much, much higher. in just one town, nearly 10,000 people are now formally officially listed as missing. so far, at least 3,000 people have been rescued. you're watching cnn's continuing coverage of the disaster in japan. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vi
we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is a special edition of "the situation room." happening now, conflicting reports about a dangerous emergency at one of japan's earthquake-damaged nuclear power plants. an official with japan's nuclear and industrial safety agency tells cnn a meltdown may, repeat, may be under way. but japan's ambassador to the united states tells me that's not true. he says there is no meltdown. on top of that, we're...
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you might be president of the united states of america. so your views on these things become exponentially, massively more important. they become a directive to the nation. >> no, they don't. i can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. the government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make. >> that's a very interesting departure. >> yes. >> from the normal politics. >> exactly. >> you got into hot water about the whole issue of muslims in a potential cabinet. >> yes. >> and you kind of flip-flopped a bit. i think you would concede, you've backtracked? haven't you? >> well, you media people call it flip-flopping. >> what would you call it? >> i call it explaining the intent of my comment. >> backtracking. >> well, you either flip-flop or backtrack. all right? it's either all or nothing. >> initially it appeared to be that you were saying you wouldn't feel comfortable, your words, with having a muslim in a cabinet -- >> exactly.
you might be president of the united states of america. so your views on these things become exponentially, massively more important. they become a directive to the nation. >> no, they don't. i can have an opinion on an issue without it being a directive on the nation. the government shouldn't be trying to tell people everything to do, especially when it comes to social decisions that they need to make. >> that's a very interesting departure. >> yes. >> from the normal...
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the president of the united states is deeply involved in this. he is speak together leaders of egypt. he is hoping that the government of qatar, turkey, that they can convince them to stop with the rockets and hopefully they can have an effort to achieve a long range solution. that's going to be very, very difficult as all of us know. but the prime minister ofgen he forces have been activated, they are in training exercises, not far from gaza and they will go in as brutal and ugly as that might, they don't want to do that because it'll cause an enormous amount of pain. israelis had a poor experience under gaza four years ago. and again with hezbollah forces. they don't want to do that but the prime minister feels he has no choice. the next 42 hours will be critical and i say there is a 50/50 chance after diplomatic cease-fire. >> wolf blitzer, thank you. >>> be sure to join wolf blitzer monday, 4:00 p.m. eastern, for "the situation room," a special edition live from jerusalem. >>> a peace effort under way it stop the violence. egypt working to re
the president of the united states is deeply involved in this. he is speak together leaders of egypt. he is hoping that the government of qatar, turkey, that they can convince them to stop with the rockets and hopefully they can have an effort to achieve a long range solution. that's going to be very, very difficult as all of us know. but the prime minister ofgen he forces have been activated, they are in training exercises, not far from gaza and they will go in as brutal and ugly as that...
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states. 50 times the maternal mortality rate as the united states. there are just so many parameters by which you measure a country's success, their likelihood for success in the future. haiti just falls terribly short in all of these areas. you talk about tough questions, wolf, but these are vexing, challenging problems as you pointed out that have lasted not just decades, but even longer than that. so who knows what his thinking is exactly in terms of his inspiration for doing this, but there are so many facets to this, wolf, and i'm just scratching the surface when i talk about this. >> let's go back to wyclef. he's joining us once again. wyclef, some of the money that was raised by your foundation, now you've stepped down from the foundation. there have been questions raised. first of all, how much money did you raise in the aftermath of the january earthquake? >> after the january earthquake, wolf, reraised approximately $9 million. >> and there's been questions raised that some of that money was not spent appropriately. there's even been allega
states. 50 times the maternal mortality rate as the united states. there are just so many parameters by which you measure a country's success, their likelihood for success in the future. haiti just falls terribly short in all of these areas. you talk about tough questions, wolf, but these are vexing, challenging problems as you pointed out that have lasted not just decades, but even longer than that. so who knows what his thinking is exactly in terms of his inspiration for doing this, but there...
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we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> violent protests across the muslim world this week, sparked by a low budget movie by a mystery film maker. the u.s. embassies found themselves under attack by outraged mobs and in some cases forces fired on mobs with deadly consequences and all of it caused a dramatic shift in the presidential campaign as foreign policy suddenly took center stage. ben wedeman is back in cairo. it seems that this weekend there seems to be a cooling of heads to a certain degree in egypt. is that what you're seeing, ben? >> certainly among the leaders of the muslim brotherhood and in the administration of the egyptian president, there is an attempt to calm down the situation rhetorically. and certainly we've seen in messages conveyed by leaders of the muslim brotherhood and the egyptian president, they're trying to send a message of reassurance to washington. but at the same time they're kind of walking a tight rope between washington and the street he
we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> violent protests across the muslim world this week, sparked by a low budget movie by a mystery film maker. the u.s. embassies found themselves under attack by outraged mobs and in some cases forces fired on mobs with deadly consequences and all of it caused a dramatic shift in the presidential campaign as foreign policy suddenly took center stage. ben...
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we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> wonderful 100,000 barrels of leaking oil have been recovered. but that's just a drop in the bucket. researchers double their estimate of the flow rate this week to as much as 40,000 barrels a day. and it could go higher. that was before the latest capping of the operation that may have unleashed even more oil. as president obama prepares to return to the gulf region on monday, officials are scrambling to try to get more accurate estimates of just how much oil they are really facing. >>> and joining us now, the u.s. government's point man on the scene in this disaster in the gulf fat allen, the admiral from the u.s. coast guard. how could the government have gotten these flow rates so wrong? originally bp said 1,000 barrels a day, then 5,000, then recently 12 to 19,000 barrels a day. now they are saying it's actually double that, 20,000 to 40,000 and that was before this cut-and-cap procedure w
we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> wonderful 100,000 barrels of leaking oil have been recovered. but that's just a drop in the bucket. researchers double their estimate of the flow rate this week to as much as 40,000 barrels a day. and it could go higher. that was before the latest capping of the operation that may have...
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these words could be said today by the president of the united states. anti-government paranoia has been building in america for years. now you wrote that recalling what was the mood in 1995. i think president obama could say the same thing right now. >> he could. and that's why i have said what i did today. i don't want something bad to happen for us to get this thing right again. and as i point ed out today, after oklahoma city, we kept right on having our political disagreements, you know, but the speaker, they closed government twice in 1995. you remember it very well at the end of the year. we had an election in 1996. oklahoma was a republican state, i still didn't carry it. but i loved them because they reoriented me and all of us. i don't want the country to have to go through that again. i want us to resume this political debate and resume the dialogue and keep it within the limits that the framers intended. beyond the law, there is no freedom. the reason all these groups have the freedom to advocate whatever they want is because of the rule of l
these words could be said today by the president of the united states. anti-government paranoia has been building in america for years. now you wrote that recalling what was the mood in 1995. i think president obama could say the same thing right now. >> he could. and that's why i have said what i did today. i don't want something bad to happen for us to get this thing right again. and as i point ed out today, after oklahoma city, we kept right on having our political disagreements, you...
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we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders. our chief whereas correspondent jessica yellen has been working the story for us. tell our viewers what you are hearing right now. >> i understand the vice president apologized to the president for putting him in a tough position on this situation and the president gave an understanding reply saying he knows that the vice president was speaking from the heart. the vice president's office also issued a statement saying it was the president who has been the leader on this issue since day one and the vice president never intended to distract from that. president obama says he was planning to say this sometime
we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders....
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you saw it even in the united states with a young man who went across to afghanistan. he had no muslim background whatsoever, but he went to wage jihad. it's not unknown for europeans to become enamored of this international jihadist project. >> let me just ask a really simple question. why norway? why norway? and why can't we conclusively say yes, this is al qaeda or yes, these are international terrorists. >> we can't see inconclusively that it's al qaeda. it's so soon. there's one somewhat plausibility group to have responsibility that comes from a group in iraq that was connected to the stockholm suicide bomber in in 2010. it's plausible without being plausible. he posted a photograph of a young man literally hours after the stockholm attack before anyone in the world knew who carried that attack out. so he did know. so that's a plausible claim. why norway? 5 million people, norwegian newspapers have repeatedly published the mohammed cartoons. there was a plot last year that was wrapped up in norway where at least one of the defendants has admitted they were going
you saw it even in the united states with a young man who went across to afghanistan. he had no muslim background whatsoever, but he went to wage jihad. it's not unknown for europeans to become enamored of this international jihadist project. >> let me just ask a really simple question. why norway? why norway? and why can't we conclusively say yes, this is al qaeda or yes, these are international terrorists. >> we can't see inconclusively that it's al qaeda. it's so soon. there's...
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the pakistani ambassador to the united states is in a slum about right now in pakistan. she's going to be joining us. we're talking about all of these dramatic developments. >> that's great. awesome. that sounds terrific. thank you, wolf. look forward to it. >>> it is turning out that more and more business leaders are getting real serious about having some real fun. a new survey found that 51% of chief financial officers say they do not check-in with the office at all while on vacation. and that is up from 26% in a 2010 poll. and 21% in a 2005 poll. that's why rachel squire is here. she's the founder of the website change the ratio. the survey is fascinating. i got to ask you, how difficult is it to actually unplug? i don't just mean checking in with the office. i mean putting down your electronics and say enough is enough, it's family time. >> well, those are two different things. i question the survey's language because checking in with the office is different than letting the office be able to check-in with you, which you can with your iphone or blackberry safely in
the pakistani ambassador to the united states is in a slum about right now in pakistan. she's going to be joining us. we're talking about all of these dramatic developments. >> that's great. awesome. that sounds terrific. thank you, wolf. look forward to it. >>> it is turning out that more and more business leaders are getting real serious about having some real fun. a new survey found that 51% of chief financial officers say they do not check-in with the office at all while on...
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drive one. >>> michael, if this had failed fshgts president of the united states had failed to get this health care reform bill through the house and the senate, he's going to sign it into law tomorrow morning here in washington. what would have that meant for his presidency? >> what i think would have -- probably would have paralyzed him. probably would have had a hard time getting anything done. i think a lot of people, including myself who hoped it would pass did so not just because of the good things that were in this bill, but also because a loss at this point after working on this for over a year would probably mean for the rest of this congressional session wasn't going to be able to get anything through. >> who do you credit? there was only a few week ago when scott brown the republican from massachusetts won that senate seat, deprived the democrats of their 60-seat super majority in the senate. it looks to a lot of observers out there that this was dead. who turned it around? >> the people. the people out there. the people of america. the members knew how they felt about this.
drive one. >>> michael, if this had failed fshgts president of the united states had failed to get this health care reform bill through the house and the senate, he's going to sign it into law tomorrow morning here in washington. what would have that meant for his presidency? >> what i think would have -- probably would have paralyzed him. probably would have had a hard time getting anything done. i think a lot of people, including myself who hoped it would pass did so not just...
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behind the scenes, sometimes the united states of america does just that. should it in this case or does that then open the door for these thin things to start happening more and more frequently? should the united states back off and try to call the bluff with someone's life hanging in the balance? >> first of all, we'd never leave an american in the hands of kidnappers either here in america or abroad. it remains a policy of the united states that we don't negotiate with terrorists, but that doesn't stop the government from relying on the commercial sector to get their people out to get their ships out. those captains have a duty to care and it is part of this commercial exchange, this commercial transaction and that's really what we have at route here is a simple commercial transaction, the pirates and kidnappers want money. the money is paid and the people are released. >> all right. thank you very much. appreciate you're taking the time tonight. >> just a few hours ago, the first major lawsuit was filed against the cruise ship company involved in the de
behind the scenes, sometimes the united states of america does just that. should it in this case or does that then open the door for these thin things to start happening more and more frequently? should the united states back off and try to call the bluff with someone's life hanging in the balance? >> first of all, we'd never leave an american in the hands of kidnappers either here in america or abroad. it remains a policy of the united states that we don't negotiate with terrorists, but...
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states, leader of the free world, you actually can start things from scratch. you can actually walk in there and say, you know what? this is a better way to do this. abe lincoln did it. roosevelt did it. kennedy did it. a lot of people have come up with crazy ideas like, hey, nine years we'll have a man on the moon. it's like -- and then they have the leadership to get everybody rallied around that and say, yeah, let's go for it. >> he didn't say, when he was a candidate for president he supported the so-called single payer system. and he -- >> that's right. >> he even walked away from what a lot of liberals and progress woifz have liked as that so-called public option. that's not included in this new law. >> that's correct. so for everybody who's watching, please understand this -- we do not have universal health care in this country tonight as a result of this bill. ? fa in fact, we don't have any real overhaul of our health care system. we had a profit making system based on capitalist principles before this bill was passed. and we have the same thing now af
states, leader of the free world, you actually can start things from scratch. you can actually walk in there and say, you know what? this is a better way to do this. abe lincoln did it. roosevelt did it. kennedy did it. a lot of people have come up with crazy ideas like, hey, nine years we'll have a man on the moon. it's like -- and then they have the leadership to get everybody rallied around that and say, yeah, let's go for it. >> he didn't say, when he was a candidate for president he...
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this incident now the largest mass shooting in the history of the united states because of the number of people killed but also injured. the governor of colorado puts into words also today what's going through the mind of just about any parent anywhere in the country today. take a listen. >> there's not one of us that doesn't read or hear this story certainly anyone who has children and think about it being your child in that movie theater. your cousin's child or your neighbor's child. and that reality makes the pain and the grief too intense for words. but we can't let it keep us from our lives. >> thank you for being with me today. our thoughts and prayers go to those in colorado. i'm brooke baldwin. now to wolf blitzer. "the situation room" begins now. >>> brooke, thanks very much. we're continuing to follow the breaking news. >> i got seven down in theater 9. >> a horrible mass shooting in a movie theater near denver. 71 people dead -- excuse me, 71 people shot, 12 of them are dead. many of the wounded still are in critical condition. a suspect is in custody. colorado's governor c
this incident now the largest mass shooting in the history of the united states because of the number of people killed but also injured. the governor of colorado puts into words also today what's going through the mind of just about any parent anywhere in the country today. take a listen. >> there's not one of us that doesn't read or hear this story certainly anyone who has children and think about it being your child in that movie theater. your cousin's child or your neighbor's child....
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the united states government could shut down in just a little over two hours from now. we're going back to capitol hill for a live report right after this.
the united states government could shut down in just a little over two hours from now. we're going back to capitol hill for a live report right after this.
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>> the united states is a cash cow for them. why kill it and kill off the funding scream that they've gotten good at conducting criminal activity here. >> one expert pointed out hezbollah has never carried out an attack inside the united states but the fbi says they have staked out potential targets in this country, wolf. >> what kind of evidence do u.s. officials have to potentially build cases against these alleged hezbollah operatives in the united states? >> one federal law enforcement official says cases include illicit fund-raising, attempts to buy weapons, not actual plots. this is what officials are afraid of. it's their infrastructure inside the united states. they have people inside who know how to work the financial system, who have been here for work. those are the people they're worried about, the infrastructure. >> thanks very much. >> the youngest victims of the slaughter in syria. the nightmare countless children are living under. and what satellite images are showing. [ female announcer ] removing facial hair ca
>> the united states is a cash cow for them. why kill it and kill off the funding scream that they've gotten good at conducting criminal activity here. >> one expert pointed out hezbollah has never carried out an attack inside the united states but the fbi says they have staked out potential targets in this country, wolf. >> what kind of evidence do u.s. officials have to potentially build cases against these alleged hezbollah operatives in the united states? >> one...
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that was the gun walking where the atf would allow the guns to be bought right in the united states. the criminals buy the guns and walk them across the border of mexico led to the killing of one border patrol agent. it has a lot of republicans calling on him to resign. what did holder say? >> reporter: he's really trying to tamp down on all of the attacks on him on this issue because in the house, republicans who run that chamber, they have set a vote for next week to hold him in contempt because they say he's not giving them key documents on this whole controversy. he tried to put an olive branch out. take a listen to what he said. >> we have reached out to chairman issa, members of the leadership on the house side to try to work our way through these issues. we've had, i think, sporadic contacts, and we are prepared to make, i am prepared to make compromises with regard to the document. >> reporter: he said what he wants is to avoid a constitutional crisis but that offer was rejected by house republican leader. there's been a lot of frustration, literally years now, in the back an
that was the gun walking where the atf would allow the guns to be bought right in the united states. the criminals buy the guns and walk them across the border of mexico led to the killing of one border patrol agent. it has a lot of republicans calling on him to resign. what did holder say? >> reporter: he's really trying to tamp down on all of the attacks on him on this issue because in the house, republicans who run that chamber, they have set a vote for next week to hold him in...
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so far, 1,000 of them by the united states, the united states -- the united states tamahawks changes this. it cannot change the outcome of libya. if there is a stale meat, the united states is going to have to be involved in a serious way. what happens if gadhafi leaves office? the united states is going to have to be involved in it. i hope we don't hear, we've done our job, we're out of here, i hope tonight we're going to hear a more realistic speech about what is going to happen down the road and what he is prepared for the united states to do under those circumstances. >> and you can see vice president bite den taking their seats. that is part of the army's ft. mcnair right here in washington, d.c. there is an important global message as the leader of the nato alliance and back on to the domestic challenges here at home? >> he's got three audiences that he's addressing. certainly the american people first and foremost and explain what the united states is doing. then he's got the people of libya, especially gadhafi, his sons, the libyan military. he's going to try to convince them
so far, 1,000 of them by the united states, the united states -- the united states tamahawks changes this. it cannot change the outcome of libya. if there is a stale meat, the united states is going to have to be involved in a serious way. what happens if gadhafi leaves office? the united states is going to have to be involved in it. i hope we don't hear, we've done our job, we're out of here, i hope tonight we're going to hear a more realistic speech about what is going to happen down the road...
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we want the president of united states to have his own plan for leadership which he doesn't have. he has no plan for leadership. he has no articulated plan to get us out of the mess that we're n i took over new york city when it was in a terrible fiscal mess. i laid out a plan, staked my reputation on it and it worked. >> obviously the republican race is heating up. people seem to assume it's now down to one of three, perry, bachman or romney. curious, a new poll just came out that in new york, for example, you have run a close second to president obama there. you have not really declared your colors really. are you feeling more inclined to run now or less inclined? >> i don't think i've changed my thinking about it very much. i mean i'm interested to see governor perry's entrance into the race and what that does and what he has to say. and pretty much my time line is to decide at the end of september. but i haven't gotten any closer to a decision. and i think the president should pay less attention to the republican candidates and more attention to the economy. i also think, you
we want the president of united states to have his own plan for leadership which he doesn't have. he has no plan for leadership. he has no articulated plan to get us out of the mess that we're n i took over new york city when it was in a terrible fiscal mess. i laid out a plan, staked my reputation on it and it worked. >> obviously the republican race is heating up. people seem to assume it's now down to one of three, perry, bachman or romney. curious, a new poll just came out that in new...
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he escaped house arrest in china and landed here in the united states. now human rights activist chen guangcheng is opening up about his final days in china and what happened to him and his family. he's written an op ed piece for "the new york times" website, accusing china of failing to uphold its own laws and insisting that its abusive treatment of dissidents threatens its political stability. after they discovered my escape from my vimmage in april, a furious pack of thugs, not one in uniform, bearing no search or arrest warrants and refusing to identify themselves, scaled the wall of my brother guangfu's farmhouse in the dead of night, smashed through the doors, and brutally assaulted my brother. after detaining him, the gang returned twice more, severely beating my sister-in-law and nephew with pickaxe handles. just last week, chen spoke exclusively with anderson cooper, but at the time he wasn't ready to speak with the horrors he'd endured in such detail. >> in 2006 you were arrested essentially on trumped up charges and you were in prison for four
he escaped house arrest in china and landed here in the united states. now human rights activist chen guangcheng is opening up about his final days in china and what happened to him and his family. he's written an op ed piece for "the new york times" website, accusing china of failing to uphold its own laws and insisting that its abusive treatment of dissidents threatens its political stability. after they discovered my escape from my vimmage in april, a furious pack of thugs, not one...
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let's talk about the president of the united states. you used some pretty harsh rhetoric in going after him. i'll play a little clip of something you've said repeatedly. listen to this. >> i'm asking each and every one of you to act over the next 24 hours as if your freedom is at stake, because it is. >> your freedom is at stake, that makes it sound as if there's going to be a tote tallian regime here. >> the freer dom is at stake. will you buy what the government tells you to bite bye. a private citizen on the condition of living in america is going to be forced to do something that never before governor has imposed upon. and as we've seen with these regulations, even if it violates your deeply held religious convictions, the federal government will force to you do something that violates the teachings and tenets of your faith, economic freedoms, religious freedoms being taken away by a government who believes they know better how to -- >> you have a brand new web ad that paints an apocalyptic image of what could happen if president ob
let's talk about the president of the united states. you used some pretty harsh rhetoric in going after him. i'll play a little clip of something you've said repeatedly. listen to this. >> i'm asking each and every one of you to act over the next 24 hours as if your freedom is at stake, because it is. >> your freedom is at stake, that makes it sound as if there's going to be a tote tallian regime here. >> the freer dom is at stake. will you buy what the government tells you to...
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states, about people within the united states, already present within the united states. >> that's correct. and those reports have been prevalent since the late 1990s, there are also reports in the late 1990s about people in the united states, and i suspect that there are reports of people today in the united states. the issue is was there actionable intelligence? and this is frustrating go about intelligence. it's imprecise. nobody but anybody ever said that we have information that there is going to be hijackings of airplanes used to fly into buildings on september of 2011 or any other timeframe. none of that was the case. we have vague generalized reporting just as president clinton had a pbd, he had a pbd in 1998 saying that they would hijack aircraft in the united states. but mr. eickenwald only faults george bush. the 9/11 commission faulted president clinton, the cia and the department of justice. it was a much more context report than anything mr. eickenwald said in his reporting, and they never had the heart of what mr. eickenwald said, where there were other pdbs that this could
states, about people within the united states, already present within the united states. >> that's correct. and those reports have been prevalent since the late 1990s, there are also reports in the late 1990s about people in the united states, and i suspect that there are reports of people today in the united states. the issue is was there actionable intelligence? and this is frustrating go about intelligence. it's imprecise. nobody but anybody ever said that we have information that...
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this is a very sad day for the united states of america when the president would engage himself at the last minute and try to exert executive privilege. >> that was florida congressman john mica speaking. he's joining me live. welcome. you have the president using executive privilege for the very first time during his presidency, we should remind our viewers of that to block your committee from seeing the fast and furious documents. we just heard you say it's a very, very sad day. what is this about the executive privilege that irks you so much? >> here you have one of the highest judicial offices of the united states, the chief officer, the attorney general, his office and possibly the attorney general was involved in selling weapons to drug dealers in mexico where an agent of the united states was murdered with those weapons. all we're trying to do is get information to conduct an investigation about that matter. here, again, the president of the united states has done a great disservice to this whole process by trying to close down what we're trying to do. this may go back to anothe
this is a very sad day for the united states of america when the president would engage himself at the last minute and try to exert executive privilege. >> that was florida congressman john mica speaking. he's joining me live. welcome. you have the president using executive privilege for the very first time during his presidency, we should remind our viewers of that to block your committee from seeing the fast and furious documents. we just heard you say it's a very, very sad day. what is...
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it went several blocks, involving both the united states secret service and the united states capitol police. right now the suspect in the vehicle, we do know was struck by gunfire, and at this point has been pronounced. the suspect has been pronounced at this point. the child is approximately a years old, and is in good condition, and in protective custody. right now, it is all very preliminary. we don't know which officers fired, how many rounds were fired. i will say that both at the white house and at the capitol, the security perimeter worked. they did exactly what they were supposed to do. they stopped a suspect from breaching the security perimeter, in a vehicle at both locations. i would say both of the united states secret service and capitol police officers, from what i have seen so far in this investigation, acted here heroically in trying to stop this suspect from entering the security perimeter at both locations. we have two officers injured, one from a capitol, one from secret service. fortunately both of them will be okay, but two officers injured just doing their jobs.
it went several blocks, involving both the united states secret service and the united states capitol police. right now the suspect in the vehicle, we do know was struck by gunfire, and at this point has been pronounced. the suspect has been pronounced at this point. the child is approximately a years old, and is in good condition, and in protective custody. right now, it is all very preliminary. we don't know which officers fired, how many rounds were fired. i will say that both at the white...
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that, in fact, when they were writing their health care bill behind closed doors in the united states senate and then the house of representatives, they were cutting deals with big labor and with members of the senate. people just were offended by that, and it gave state senator brown, now senator brown, awn opportunity to kind of dig into that hole a little more and say to the people, this is not the kind of change that you voted for, and look, barack obama and the dpems have become the corrupt majority and we need to change that. very ma very smart. >> larry: we'll be back with more after this. what's going on? we ordered a gift online and we really need to do something with it... i'm just not sure what... what is it? oh just return it. returning gifts is easier than ever with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. plus i can pick it up for free. perfect because we have to get that outta this house. c'mon, it's not that... gahh, oh yeah that's gotta go... priority mail flat rate shipping starts at $4.9
that, in fact, when they were writing their health care bill behind closed doors in the united states senate and then the house of representatives, they were cutting deals with big labor and with members of the senate. people just were offended by that, and it gave state senator brown, now senator brown, awn opportunity to kind of dig into that hole a little more and say to the people, this is not the kind of change that you voted for, and look, barack obama and the dpems have become the...
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the united states saying no way. the secretary of state hillary clinton slammed the russians over syria once again. she accused moscow of supplying helicopters to the syrian government. they were accused of torturing children. joining us from washington, chris lawrence. what's going on? this back and forth between the united states. this is getting serious. >> reporter: very serious. the accusations are really flying back and forth now. when you look at some of the what's coming out of the state department in the pentagon, the russians may be getting mixed messages from the u.s. government. take a listen. >> our question remains how can the russians conscious their continued military sales to syria. >> russia has been extraordinarily helpful. we're grateful for the assistance they offer with respect to logistics routes in and out of northern afghanistan. >> reporter: what he is talking about there is the northern distribution network. what that means is afghanistan is landlocked. on one side you have country like ira
the united states saying no way. the secretary of state hillary clinton slammed the russians over syria once again. she accused moscow of supplying helicopters to the syrian government. they were accused of torturing children. joining us from washington, chris lawrence. what's going on? this back and forth between the united states. this is getting serious. >> reporter: very serious. the accusations are really flying back and forth now. when you look at some of the what's coming out of...
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behind the scenes, obviously sometimes the united states of america does just that. should nit this case? or does that then just open the door for these things to start escalating. should the united states back off and try to call these guys' bluff with someone's life hanging in the balance? >> first of all, we never leave an american in the hands of kidnapper, either here in america or abroad. it remains a policy in the united states that we don't negotiate with terrorist, but that doesn't stop the government from rely on the commercial sector to get their people out, to get their ships out. those captains have a duty to care and it is part of this commercial exchange, this commercial transaction. and that's really what we have at root here, a simple commercial transaction. the pirates and kidnappers want money. the money is paid and the people are released. >> well, thank you very much. appreciate you taking the time tonight. >>> the first lawsuits were filed against the cruise ship company that ran aground last tuesday. this. co-s the same day the cruise line offe
behind the scenes, obviously sometimes the united states of america does just that. should nit this case? or does that then just open the door for these things to start escalating. should the united states back off and try to call these guys' bluff with someone's life hanging in the balance? >> first of all, we never leave an american in the hands of kidnapper, either here in america or abroad. it remains a policy in the united states that we don't negotiate with terrorist, but that...
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start treaty is a big deal to the president of the united states. don't ask, don't tell, is a big deal to the president of the united states. i was getting e-mails from republicans saying, don't forget, we did okay in this session too. they denied the omnibus spending bill. they pulled those earmarks out and they just passed a continuing resolution. we'll have a budget in march. they got this president who campaigned on a promise to get rid of the bush tax cuts for the rich to extend them another two years. they cut the size of that 9/11 responders bill -- there was a large of outrage they wouldn't pass it, but in the end the republicans cut the price tag down from $7.5 billion to somewhere in the ball park of $4 billion. they think that's good conservative governance. >> that's right, and it's a good indication of how this lame duck has been productive. it's had compromise. it rep veenlts the message voters were saying, which has to do with checks and balances. the virtues of divide government. it show us going forward that devild government does n
start treaty is a big deal to the president of the united states. don't ask, don't tell, is a big deal to the president of the united states. i was getting e-mails from republicans saying, don't forget, we did okay in this session too. they denied the omnibus spending bill. they pulled those earmarks out and they just passed a continuing resolution. we'll have a budget in march. they got this president who campaigned on a promise to get rid of the bush tax cuts for the rich to extend them...
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we do have an incumbent president of the united states. the history tells you ask the voters anywhere around 2 world. when you have an incumbent and the times are tough, issue number one is the encouple bantd. so that's the biggest i shall shoe. that's a very con ttroversial choice. if we can have a policy debate, maybe whoever wins will actually have a mandate to govern? >> yeah, even for bid an actual policy. >> they mielgt know what the voters want. >> yaw, let's bring wolf blitzer right now in that town we're talking about. wolf, give us some analysis from the ob camp's perspective. how will the obama camp attack this? >> i think they will immediately start talking about what paul ryan's budget, the determinant of the house bujts committee would have called for if it was obviously approved by the house of representatives. but what i'll say is paul ryan wants to end medicare as we know it. i'll say he wants to really, effectively and social security, two very popular entitlement programs for seniors and the united states, medicare, the
we do have an incumbent president of the united states. the history tells you ask the voters anywhere around 2 world. when you have an incumbent and the times are tough, issue number one is the encouple bantd. so that's the biggest i shall shoe. that's a very con ttroversial choice. if we can have a policy debate, maybe whoever wins will actually have a mandate to govern? >> yeah, even for bid an actual policy. >> they mielgt know what the voters want. >> yaw, let's bring wolf...
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for the united states and the rest of the world? this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. it's been a day of quite extraordinary turmoil and tension around the world. we're covering this across egypt from alexandria to cairo and washington and new york. with all the global resources of cnn. we begin with our correspondents on the ground in egypt. ben wedeman in cairo, nic robertson in alexandria. ben, what is going on right now? >> well, what we see, piers is the army is fully deployed in the streets of cairo. and that was sort of the major development. it changed the balance in the whole events of the day. the demonstrators who were attacking and fighting with the police throughout the day in fact, throughout the last four days, suddenly cheered the arrival of the army. the police force in cairo has utterly disappeared. there's a police station just behind our office which he saw the crowd of protesters going after, attacking, trying to break down the metal doors. the policemen were inside huddled. the
for the united states and the rest of the world? this is a special edition of "piers morgan tonight." >>> good evening. it's been a day of quite extraordinary turmoil and tension around the world. we're covering this across egypt from alexandria to cairo and washington and new york. with all the global resources of cnn. we begin with our correspondents on the ground in egypt. ben wedeman in cairo, nic robertson in alexandria. ben, what is going on right now? >> well,...
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by far the largest stimulus package ever approved by a united states congress. and the stimulus package is working exactly as we had anticipated. we gave out tax cuts early so that consumers could start spending or at least pay down debts so they could at a later date start spending. we put in $144 billion to states so that they wouldn't have to cut teachers and police officers and, you know, other social services vital, particularly at a time of recession. and we always anticipated that a big chunk of that money then would be spent not only in the second half of the year, but also next year. this is designed to be a two-year plan and not a six-month plan. now, it may turn out that the enormous loss of wealth, the depth of the recession that's occurred requires us to reevaluate and see what else we can do in combination with the -- >> a second stimulus? >> well, there are a whole range of things, anderson, that we've done. the banks have stabilized much more quickly than we had anticipated. they're not all the way to where we'd like them to, but we see significa
by far the largest stimulus package ever approved by a united states congress. and the stimulus package is working exactly as we had anticipated. we gave out tax cuts early so that consumers could start spending or at least pay down debts so they could at a later date start spending. we put in $144 billion to states so that they wouldn't have to cut teachers and police officers and, you know, other social services vital, particularly at a time of recession. and we always anticipated that a big...
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some have said it's the largest man made epidemic in the united states. i heard about increase in pain pills just as a doctor in the hospital but president clinton had called me, and i had never heard him like this before. he was very distraught because two of his friends had both lost sons within just a few days of each other. in this manner. they were people who were -- had jobs, one of them worked at the state department for secretary clinton, and they simply overdosed objen these pills and died, young men at the prime of their lives. so he was quite distraught about it and alerted me to some of these statistics, number one cause of death in this country, surpassing car crashes, causes more deaths than methamphetamine, heroin, combined. people don't realize when you hear drug overdose, very different. we take a lot of pain pails in this country. i talked to him about a lot of different things but i want you to listen to a little of what he said. >> this may be a static you know, i was surprised by it, but 80% of the world's pain prescriptions are in th
some have said it's the largest man made epidemic in the united states. i heard about increase in pain pills just as a doctor in the hospital but president clinton had called me, and i had never heard him like this before. he was very distraught because two of his friends had both lost sons within just a few days of each other. in this manner. they were people who were -- had jobs, one of them worked at the state department for secretary clinton, and they simply overdosed objen these pills and...
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it's not attached to the united states. you know, continental. >> you take on sarah palin over selling alaska, my friend. i'm not going anywhere near that. >> it's got oil. >> i hear you, quest. it is hard not to hear you. but let me tell you, a coup of years ago when this idea was floated, the then prime minister of greece had this to say. and it sounded a lot like you, but for the english act sent. and it was this -- there are more imaginative and effective ways to dealing with the deficit than selling off greek islands. we cherish these islands. and selling them would be out of the question. it would not help. but honestly, i do fleed to ask you with your business acumen, why would it not help? >> because this is not just a solvency issue. this isn't just about debt. it's not just about greece's inability to pay its current bills. it's about reform and competitiveness of the greek economy. it's about greece trying to compete with fellow euro zone and european companies that are better in terms of production. they produce
it's not attached to the united states. you know, continental. >> you take on sarah palin over selling alaska, my friend. i'm not going anywhere near that. >> it's got oil. >> i hear you, quest. it is hard not to hear you. but let me tell you, a coup of years ago when this idea was floated, the then prime minister of greece had this to say. and it sounded a lot like you, but for the english act sent. and it was this -- there are more imaginative and effective ways to dealing...